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frankly, i think it would be harder to have a compromise on son-in-law of the entitlement reform that republicans want to see, at least some movement before they will agree before this talk of raising taxes will be anything more than the lip service that you mentioned. >> okay. so ken is suggesting there it's in republicans' interests to do a deal now. jared, the white house is warning today, and you mentioned it earlier, of dire consequences if the bush tax cuts for the middle class expire. a hit to consumer spending something like four times the revenue of black friday. jared, do you think that republicans would risk that kind of disaster to protect the top 2% who frankly can afford to pay a little bit more. >> i fear there is a significant bloc of republicans in the house who, frankly, might make that kind of a terrible deal for america, and you teed it up exactly right. you're talking about middle class households at risk of a couple thousand dollars increase in their tax liability if the bush tax cuts expire for them. this is the 98% of households that everyone agrees on. and i t
frankly, i think it would be harder to have a compromise on son-in-law of the entitlement reform that republicans want to see, at least some movement before they will agree before this talk of raising taxes will be anything more than the lip service that you mentioned. >> okay. so ken is suggesting there it's in republicans' interests to do a deal now. jared, the white house is warning today, and you mentioned it earlier, of dire consequences if the bush tax cuts for the middle class...
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pass a law that would prevent a tax hike on the first $250,000 of everybody's income. >> the election's over. he won. congratulations. >> if we can get a few house republicans to agree as well -- >> we all agree but we're not going to raise taxes on people that make less than $250,000. we should take them out of this discussion. >> i've got a pen. i'm ready to sign it. >> he's got the republicans on the ropes and they know it. >> obama's answer to this budget crisis is to raise taxes on the wealthy just because he ran on that promise. and won the election. >> the president really wants to reach an agreement, he needs to be talking with the members of his own party right here in washington. >> it's too important for washington to screw this up. we really need to get this right. ♪ how do you like me now ♪ ♪ how do you like me now ♪ >> good afternoon, it is difficult to hold down the excitement here in new york. it is a growing frenzy that everyone's talking about. there are fantasies of celebration, if the numbers go their way. there are teams pooling resources. there's talk of hi
pass a law that would prevent a tax hike on the first $250,000 of everybody's income. >> the election's over. he won. congratulations. >> if we can get a few house republicans to agree as well -- >> we all agree but we're not going to raise taxes on people that make less than $250,000. we should take them out of this discussion. >> i've got a pen. i'm ready to sign it. >> he's got the republicans on the ropes and they know it. >> obama's answer to this budget...
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obama care is the law of the land. the supreme court adds you mentioned spoke on this and reaffirmed that. governors have a right to govern their states the way they choose, based on their state constitution -- >> can i jump in on this? >> yeah, because my read is not when the supreme court of the united states says, you have to do this. you go. >> the supreme court gave the governors the right to do this. this has to be the most absurd position republicans have taken in the past year. there's a lot of competition for absurd positions. consider what republican governors are saying. they are saying, no to the opportunity to insure tens of millions of poor people even when they don't have to pay anything for it. the federal government pays between 90% and 100% of the state of state medicare expansion to insure on the order of 19 to 20 million poor folks. republican governors are saying no. even though a nonpartisan study said in a state like arizona that arizona could gain 20,000 jobs and $1 billion in revenue, states li
obama care is the law of the land. the supreme court adds you mentioned spoke on this and reaffirmed that. governors have a right to govern their states the way they choose, based on their state constitution -- >> can i jump in on this? >> yeah, because my read is not when the supreme court of the united states says, you have to do this. you go. >> the supreme court gave the governors the right to do this. this has to be the most absurd position republicans have taken in the...
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apparently there are now at least some republican officials who are admitting that the state law which led to all those long lines was really intended to drive down the turnout among democrats. i'm not sure we can cope with this new found honesty among republicans, can we? >> no. i mean, what, are you suggesting they were engaging in voter suppression, martin? is that what you're trying to tell me? >> it seems that's what the palm beach post has discovered. >> that's not what it's about. it's all about voter fraud. they were just trying to protect the validity of the election. >> but there was no voter fraud. >> i feel this is another statement of the obvious. you don't do the kinds of things we saw not just in florida but a number of states that just happened to be states where we saw the highest amount of growth in african-american and the latino populations, a, and, b, many of the laws and many of the rule changes were very much i think as this piece points out targeted to the kinds of things that they know benefit democratic turnout like early voting, voting on sundays, expanding v
apparently there are now at least some republican officials who are admitting that the state law which led to all those long lines was really intended to drive down the turnout among democrats. i'm not sure we can cope with this new found honesty among republicans, can we? >> no. i mean, what, are you suggesting they were engaging in voter suppression, martin? is that what you're trying to tell me? >> it seems that's what the palm beach post has discovered. >> that's not what...